I didn't check before..... thanks a lot ... kyle :)
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Kyle Mestery (kmestery) < [email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 22, 2013, at 2:15 AM, Romil Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > We are using OVS as neutron plugin to use VLAN/ VXLAN. We found that OVS > does multiple unicast to send the ARP request instead of sending via > Multicast address. But by default Linux bridge supports Multicast. > > > > Is there any reason behind why OVS doesn't support Multicast? > > > > Thanks in Advance :) > > > Hi Romil: > > I'm copying and pasting the answer I gave to you when you asked this > question on the openstack mailing list as well: > > The only reason is that support for a multicast control plane never made > it upstream into OVS. However, there is effort upstream in OVS to > synchronize the data plane portions of VXLAN, and when that happens, OVS > VXLAN will acquire multicast support. > > FYI: In Havana, you may want to checkout the ML2 plugin with the L2 > Population MechanismDriver. It does some pretty neat things with regards to > programming OVS using multiple tables, etc. > > Thanks, > Kyle > -- *Regards,* *Romil *
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